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When they turned to face Moldova, however, the two silver-haired Presidents were less conciliatory. Russians and Ukrainians are trying to secede from the former republic, where ethnic Romanians predominate, moves to rejoin Romania. Fighting intensified in Bendery, a Slav enclave on the west bank of the Dniester River, as former Soviet army units joined in combat against Moldovans...
Yeltsin demanded an end to the bloodshed, and Kravchuk said he would support the Russian and Ukrainian secessionists if Moldova returned to Romania. Two days later, at a regional economic conference in Istanbul, Yeltsin and Moldovan President Mircea Snegur announced a cease-fire. Snegur said Moldova's parliament would examine ways to grant home rule to the Trans-Dniester region, where Russian and Ukrainian separatists are concentrated...
...convoluted plot twists and bravura posturing might seem reminiscent of a comic opera. Certainly the so-called Dniester Republic (pop. 600,000) is among the miniest of ministates, proclaimed by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians seceding from a secession. Its citizens refused to stay in the new nation of Moldova (pop. 4.4 million), a former Soviet republic that broke away from Moscow last August, because the majority ethnic Romanians were making noises about uniting with their brethren across the border...
...spring; Ukraine has made coupons for the money the sole legal tender in state-owned shops. Officially pegged at a rate of one coupon per ruble, the scrip fetches up to 13 rubles on the Ukrainian black market. Belarus intends to issue its own new currency in April, and Moldova and Kazakhstan are planning to print new money as well. Such defections will flood Russia with ever more rubles as the neighboring republics begin exchanging the shaky currency for their own coin of the realm. The torrent could in turn thwart Russian attempts to stabilize the ruble at home...
Leningrad is St. Petersburg, Moldavia is Moldova, Minsk is Mensk...